Mozilla.org has gottena a facelift to coincide with the formation of the Mozilla Foundation. Among the improvements, it’s now much easier to download.
Category: Legacy
To obtain an SSH fingerprint, run ‘ssh-keygen -l‘ on a .pub file. For more fingerprinting fun, see ssh-keyscan.
I was speaking with a friend and he doubts that Bush won’t get re-elected because he believes that most of America is too happy with Bush. While I don’t entirely disagree about Bush’s re-election chances, I have to hope that my friend is “misunderestimating” the ability of the American public to see what’s going on, despite what FOX News might be saying (recent polls seem to some mixed signs).
BuzzMachine: AOL blogs (also blogged by an AOL employee)
Out of curiousity I just took the SelectSmart 2004 Presidential Selector. It’s not bad, although not that informational. It certainly could be made much better by specifically gridding out the issues, allowing something akin to a +/-5 type thing, and being interactive so you could pop up each candidates stance and see how they reflect to your opinions. That being said, it at least has some semblance of accuracy. It put me as most closely matched to Dean. By comparison, Bush was at 7%.
- Open Government Information Awareness – Media Lab becomes relevant again
- OpenGroupware.org – finally an OSS exchange alternative? /. discussion
- Small Stories in printed form! Cool. I’ll be dropping by Golden Apple tomorrow, so I’ll be looking for it
- How to Photograph Fireworks – will have to try this out next year
- N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella), by Jason Freeman
- To install: Wonder Shaper
- PeerGuardian 2, a P2P lightweight firewall (seems fruitless), with list of bad IP’s
- Brian’s BitTorrent FAQ and Guide
- XUL Programmer’s Reference (via Bit Banger)
- OSCON 2003 Day Three
Brian Aker, fresh on his new job as Senior Architect at MySQL, shocked the world (or, at least, me) when he announced that he’d embedded Perl in MySQL and was using it for stored procedures a couple of years ago. Of course, it did segfault rather often. Fortunately, it’s highly mature now. In his talk on “Making MySQL Do More”, Brian showed the embedded function API. You can write new functions for MySQL in Perl, Python, PHP, and Java. (Keep asking him about Ruby.) You can link to C libraries; he’s used Image Magick and zlib. I’m excited about how easily you can modify queries . SELECT DIFF(foo) … anyone?
- More ping pong shenanigans [2.4M ASF]
Current programming projects:
- Comic Book Reader – learning Cocoa/Objective-C, what better way to learn than to program something useful?
- Azureus – doing some work on this BitTorrent client to see if it can be easily ported to OS X.
- P2P Identity/Relationship Tool – as yet unnamed project, but it should be pretty cool
- blogging tool – finish blikiliner. To possibly add: bitflux/other integration, nEcho support, post aggregration (via bookmarklet? scraping?); do cool stuff w/ blo.gs rss cloud
God, I sincerely hope the stupid chimp was who wrote the layer handling for Netscape 4 has either 1) learned how to program or 2) gone back to waiting tables and isn’t inflicting more pain on the world. I’ve wasted an hour tediously debugging a page layout because ‘document.write’ was blowing up in an absolutely positioned div. DOCUMENT.WRITE! Good lord.
The problem? Turns out, that although elements within an absolutely positioned div somewhat respect the z-index, both background rendering and event capture (the click-plane) don’t, and instead are laid down in document order. Don’t ask me how this interaction barfs with document.write but not static content, I have no frickin’ clue how something could be this badly written.
I’m sure this has been documented somewhere before, but frickin’ A. It’s disgusting.
(not even going to talk about why absolute divs were necessary in the first place because of other NS4 shortcomings — this is why doing front-end work drives me batty)
Not at OSCON this year, forgot about it and was just too busy. Too busy to really even follow along online, but for future reference: